Coco

A young Mexican lad's (voice of Anthony Gonzalez) quest to
follow in the footsteps of his hometown's most famous son (voice of Benjamin
Bratt) by becoming a world-renowned musician takes a supernatural turn on the
Day of the Dead when he is mysteriously transported to the afterlife as
depicted in the folklore associated with the pre-Columbian aspects of that
celebration. There, a good-hearted but slippery character (voice of Gael Garcia
Bernal) becomes his guide and agrees to help him obtain the blessing of a
deceased relative he will need if he is to return to the land of the living.
While free of any age-inappropriate content and strong on the importance of
family solidarity, co-director Adrian Molina's script, penned with Matthew
Aldrich, is stuffed full of notions about the fate of the departed that clash
with revealed truth and so are unsuitable for impressionable viewers. Thus
principal director Lee Unkrich's visually rich animated fantasy cannot be
recommended for the youthful audience at which it seems primarily aimed, though
teens and grownups can safely appreciate it.